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Experts' View
Experts' View

Europe and China are two unilateral commitments with one goal.Will the global
challenge of climate change be an opportunity to resume a more constructive all-
round dialogue? It would be possible, for example, resuming the joint work on the
Europe-China electricity interconnection,already evaluated by the EU Commission
Joint Research Centre to enhance the transmission of renewable energy produced in
the two continents.

cold war
tech
Beyond the tech cold war
Beyond the

By Mr. Corrado Clini, Former Minister for the Environment
Land and Sea in the Italian Government, Visiting professor of
Tsinghua University

60 Corrado Clini The EU Green Deal and the commitment of climate neutrality
by 2050 (i.e. zero green house gases emissions) have been
endorsed by the European Parliament in December 2019 and
January2020. The first step towards climate neutrality will be
Mr. Corrado Clini was born in 1947
the target of a 55% emissions reduction by 2030 compared to
and received a bachelor of science
1990 levels, included in the EU “Climate Law”.
degree in medicine from the University On March 4, 2020, Ursula von der Leyen, presenting the
of Parma in 1972. He holds a PhD Climate Law, the first legislative proposal in the framework of
the Green Deal, said: “2050 is no longer impossibly distant to
in occupational health from Padua
imagine and my children will be a bit younger than I am now
University in 1975 and another PhD
when we reach 2050. So,as I have a glimpse of the possible
in hygiene and public health from environment they will likely experience, this glimpse is pretty
sobering if we do not act now. And the science is very clear.
Ancona University in 1986.He was the
Climate is part of the natural world that sustains us. And this
Italian minister of environment, land
natural world is severely endangered.”
and sea (IMELS), and the co-chairman Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly on
of the European environmental and September 22, 2020, President Xi Jinping pledged that China
will achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 – i.e.zero carbon
health committee of the United Nations
emissions – and reach peak emissions by the end of the
economic commission for Europe.Mr.
decade.
Clini also worked as a visiting professor President Xi Jinping said that “humanity cannot continue
at the Department for Environmental to ignore the growing alarm messages from nature”, perhaps
having in mind the extreme weather events in southern and
Sciences and Engineering of Tshingua
central China in August and September, when the Yangtze
University and the senior expert of
River, the Yellow River and 751 other tributary rivers burst
GEIDCO Advisory (Consultant) Board. their banks, affecting at least 70 million people.
Xi Jinping's pledge is a significant change in the

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